A Concert for New York, As Seen in Alaska

Very short entry today, I’m not much of a music reviewer. I do know what I like, and Mahler’s 2nd Symphony, “The Resurrection Symphony,” is definitely in the “like” category.

When I watch TV, it’s generally PBS, and Performance Today is one of my must-watches.

Sunday night they had A Concert for New York, actually performed and taped at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center on Saturday, but shown on 9/11. I don’t think I can actually put it up on the blog, but it is available online.

This is one of those symphonies that has not only the orchestra, but solo voices and a chorus. They sang in German, but with a translation on the screen. All that is created dies. All that dies is resurrected. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Not quite sure how I’ll manage this, as tomorrow is the day I spend all day at the Farmers’ Market trying to sell books. Plus the posts for the next three days are already queued up. I think one of the facts will be a calculation of how many bloggers would be tagged in a year, or maybe just in a month, if everyone tags 3 at one-day intervals! I’ll try to write something on the iPad at the market, but it’s probably going to go up about 11:59 tomorrow night if I’m lucky. (Better make it a month–I hit the population of the earth by day 24. Ah, the power of the exponential–and why chain letters are illegal.)